"Annalisa! Come back!" the boy shouted.
Annalisa, the girl wearing a flower dress, laughed as her golden curls fell perfectly on her shoulders, bouncing up and down.
"Catch me if you can!" she ran towards the river, the boy soon catching up with her. He put his hand on her shoulder, turning her around.
"Why am I not good enough for you, Annie?"
A tear started forming at the corner of his eye. He quickly wiped it away with his sleeve.
"My parents don't approve." Annalisa turned around and was now facing the baby-blue river.
Rage started to build up inside the boy.
"They want me to marry a Jewish boy." She exclaimed. She couldn't do anything about it. It was a tradition; a Jewish girl married a Jewish boy, that's what her family expects her to do. The last thing she would want is to disappoint her family.
Now, the boy was furious and hurt at the same time. He loved her, endlessly, recklessly.
If he couldn't have her, no one could.
He pushed her inside the water. He held her head underneath so she would drown quickly. One last time, he pulled her head above the water by her hair to hear her last words.
"Adolf!" she screamed, but he had no remorse. She drowned, and her lifeless body was left to float on the water surface.
He left.
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Anguish | Short Unsettling Stories | #Wattys2017
Short StoryMaybe you wish you could unread this. Maybe you find yourself wanting more. Just when you thought that everything's okay, these stories knock on your window and show you that nothing is the way you think it is.
